Jezebel: Genocide

Planned Parenthood: Herman Cain Has No Idea What He's Talking About

Margaret Hartmann — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:50:00 EDT

Earlier this month, people got a little confused about Herman Cain's stance on abortion, possibly because he isn't quite sure what his position is. In an interview with Piers Morgan, he indicated he might be willing to let women make choices about their own health, before realizing mid-sentence that that's crazy talk (in the eyes of crazy anti-choicers). Since then, he's been working furiously to memorize the anti-abortion Mad Libs his staff gave him, and now he's made his views even clearer: He's totally against all abortion, as well as Planned Parenthood's continuing attempt to commit genocide against the black community. Hey, we'd be against that too — if there was an truth to that comment. More »

Former Rwandan Women's Minister Convicted Of Genocide

Irin Carmon — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:30:09 EDT

As minister for women and family affairs in Rwanda, Pauline Nyiramasuhuko ordered the rape of women and girls and participated in genocide. She's the first woman to be convicted by the United Nations tribunal, seventeen years after the horrific events in Rwanda. More »

British GQ Features Naomi Campbell Nude, Floating In A Pool

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:30:00 EST

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GQ promises its story will explain what the hell, exactly, Campbell was thinking on the stand at Charles Taylor's trial, but we're not expecting much given the mag didn't press Campbell on the subject during their last interview. [GQ UK]

Elle Turkey Shoots Fashion Spread In Ruined Armenian City

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:07:00 EST

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In 1064, Turkish armies laid siege to Ani, a bustling, largely Armenian city of 200,000. They were ordered to destroy Ani, and kill everyone they found. In 2011, Elle Turkey used the ruins left behind for a fashion story. More »

Trial By Fire

Anna Holmes — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:10:00 EDT

[The Hague, October 26. Image via Getty]

Memorial Day

Anna Holmes — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:10:00 EDT

[Kiev, September 27. Image via Getty]

Grave Injustice

Anna Holmes — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:10:00 EDT

[Srebrenica, Bosnia; July 10. Image via Getty]

The Forest For The Trees

Anna Holmes — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:10:00 EDT

["Ljubelj South", Slovenia; June 5. Image via Getty]

Angelina Jolie Pleads For International Intervention in Darfur

Megan Carpentier — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:20:00 EDT

Today, Angelina Jolie writes for Time, "Friday is a defining moment in the history of justice." Why? Because the U.N. Security Council is getting the (obvious) results of the International Criminal Court investigation into Sudanese President Omar al Bashir. More »

The Flags Of Their Daughters

Anna Holmes — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:10:00 EDT

[Moscow, April 24. Image via Getty]

Rwandan Women's Perspectives On Their Children, Their Rapes

Megan Carpentier — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:30:00 EST

Photographer Jonathan Torgovnik's new book and exhibition, Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape, is a series of amazing portraits and interviews with the survivors and children of the genocide. [Jonathan Torgovnik, Aperture, Andrew Sullivan] More »

Mr. Clooney Goes To War

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:45:00 EST

NY Times journalist Nicholas Kristof writes of George Clooney in Darfur: "Mr. Clooney figured that since cameras follow him everywhere, he might as well redirect some of that spotlight to people who need it more." More »

Darfur: When Assault Becomes A Case For Genocide

Megan Carpentier — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:00:00 EST

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, has pressed charges against Sudan's President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir for a variety of things and is awaiting the decision of 3 judges on what basis, if any, they will issue a warrant for his arrest. One of the many charges Moreno-Ocampo has asked be brought against Bashir is for the use of rape as a weapon on genocide. If the court agrees, it will be the first time that anyone has been charged with using mass rape to commit genocide. More »

Women Are The Economic Backbone Of The New Rwanda

Jessica G. — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:30:00 EDT

Those Rwandan women who are employed making "peace baskets" for Macy's — a job that helps them to repair the fissures of the ethnic civil war that saw the deaths of some 800,000 people fourteen years ago? They are part of a wave of women helping to lift Rwanda out of the poverty caused by the Hutu/Tutsi conflict. Not surprisingly, the economic and political contributions of women are the main fuel for Rwanda's current economic revival. According to Washington Post's Anthony Faiola, the genocide of Tutsis by Hutu militias and subsequent retributions left Rwanda with a population that's 60% female. This, along with new laws passed in 1999 that allowed women to inherit property, left the door open for more women to start businesses, even though in Rwanda's more patriarchal society, many women must still ask their husbands for permission before making economic choices. Now, women are running coffee plantations and graining mills, and often, they're out-earning their male counterparts. More »

Ousted Hot Obama Adviser Samantha Power's Advice On Love

Moe — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:00:13 EST

In our free time we've been learning all we can about ousted Obama foreign policy adviser Samantha Power, so here you have it for your attempts at intelligent barroom conversation: she's a big drinker and a big talker. She did not plan to take a position in any sort of Obama cabinet precisely because she likes to talk too much. She was inspired to be a foreign correspondent during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Calls Obama a "seriously special dude." Thinks too much conviction can be a dangerous thing because it erodes empathy. Thinks genocide has "brutalized" the sensibilities of all who recognize it, making for something like a trickle-down effect that gave us Abu Ghraib. Has that same problem all smart pretty girls have where dudes don't pay attention to what she's saying because they are too busy trying to feel her up which may be why she has to say reckless things. Is dating a fellow Obama adviser. But most endearing of all, we found, was her advice on love, offered in this 2006 commencement speech. More »